Twitter

Twitter is an extremely popular micro-blogging service and social network that lets you follow and be followed, either publicly or privately, and share status updates in 140 character tweets. Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass in the late spring of 2006 and was initially used by people in the tech industry to stay in contact during and between conferences. Since SMS was a big part of its initial design, Twitter limited posts to fit inside the 160 character SMS limit of the time, reserving 20 characters for the username. When the iPhone launched, Twitter seemed like a perfect match and apps like Twitterrific not only helped take the service mainstream but contributed such foundational elements as the bird symbol and the word tweet. Twitter eventually acquired Loren Brichter's Tweetie apps, turned them into Twitter for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and began launching additional apps for other systems.

Twitter has remained independent and has experimented with both internal diversification, like Twitter Music, and acquisitions, like Vine. Twitter is also currently integrated into both Apple's mobile and desktop operating systems, iOS and OS X.

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If you use the official Twitter app on your iPhone or iPad, you have the option to receive push notifications for events such as when someone mentions you in a tweet, retweets something you tweeted, and more. Depending on how often you tweet, you may want to customize exactly what you're alerted...

If you use the official Twitter app for iPhone and iPad, you hopefully have some profile information set up so users can see a quick bio about you as well as a photo. Not only does it make your Twitter account more personable, it tells potential followers what your interests are so they know if...

The official Twitter app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac has just been updated and one of the biggest new additions is direct message (DM) sync across devices. Basically meaning if you mark a message as read on your iPad, it will sync the read status to your iPhone, Mac, and the full and mobile web...

I recently previewed the new Camera app Apple will be releasing alongside iOS 7 this fall, and one of the things that stood out for me the most was not so much the inclusion of built-in photo filters - everyone seems to be adding those these days - but the subtly and restraint shown in which...

New to social networking, new to iMore, or maybe new to both! Today on Talk Mobile we kicked off social week by asking you all about where and how you share your social status. If your network of choice is Twitter, well, iMore and our staff are here for you!
iMore of course has its own Twitter...

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Last week the word "tweet" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Craig Hockenberry, a principle of the Iconfactory, co-creator of Twitterrific, and iMore hall of famer, gave some background as to its origins on his blog, Furbo.org:
It still feels strange to hear a word I helped create...

Twitter has pushed out an update to Tweetdeck for Mac giving it the same new interface as the web clients received a short time ago. The new looks is cleaner, has a new navigation bar on the left of the screen and makes customising your experience that much simpler.
The columns in your Tweetdeck...

The official Twitter for iOS app has just been updated to version 5.7 and brings with it some visual enhancements, particularly for the iPhone version. Most notably, tweet previews before you submit them and wider timelines throughout the entire app.
Twitter has been focusing a lot on user...

Twitter announced Wednesday that it is offering a form of two-step authentication for security-conscious users who want to make sure that their accounts are protected from unauthorized use. The new feature is described in a post made by Jim O'Leary of Twitter's product security team on the...

If all those Instagram 'selfies' just isn't enough for you, then the latest Vine update for iOS has you covered. Until now, the social mini-video sharing service has limited budding film makers to using the rear camera. The update pushing out today in the App Store adds to the toolbox the front...

The official Twitter for Mac application hasn't seen an update in a while, but the one that dropped today brings something that has been long overdue. The headline feature upgrade is that now, Twitter for Mac is finally Retina Display ready, meaning it looks oh so much better on the Retina...

This morning Twitter announced #music, a new app which allows Twitter users to post and listen to embedded tracks from iTunes, Spotify, or Rdio. By checking out the new #NowPlaying section, you can get a snapshot view of what's being listened to by the people you follow. For those looking for...

Twitter for iOS has been updated, adding the ability to install and launch apps from tweets. Apps with support for the latest Cards functionality will automatically add a link to open or install the app when a user tweets from it, along with a short description of the app.
Twitter says that this...

When Twitter started out it was used almost exclusively by geeky tech types, first as a way to stay connected at conferences, and later as a general water cooler to keep in touch, network and exchange ideas, and blow off some steam. Today, Twitter is a massive mainstream mashup where many if not...

Even outside Cupertino, in the massive retail division of Apple, secrecy is a deeply held value. Yet people are, by nature, social animals, and platforms like Twitter and even Google+, filled with friends and family, are in many cases just too big to ignore. Some simply draw up a firewall, never...

Twitter for iOS has been updated, improving search and removing the capability to upload to certain video services. Twitter for iOS will now give you more user and topic suggestions for your search terms based on what happens in real time. You will also receive these suggestions when adding a...

Twitterrific, the original and yet most modern Twitter app on iOS, has updated to version 5.1 and with it comes a bevy of new features. You get muffling of #hashtags and domains, and you can tap on a muffled tweet to peek at it. Settings are now synced across your devices thanks to iCloud...

Tweetbot just updated to support Twitter's 1.1 API, and to partially support Twitter's new interface display guidelines. Come March 5, the old version of the app will stop working, and if you want to keep accessing Twitter, you'll have to do it with the new app, with it's new, more standardized...

Earlier in the week I compared iPhone Twitter app timeline views, and since fair is fair, it seemed only right that I do the same for iPad Twitter apps. And again, Twitter's cold war with client developers notwithstanding, there's some amazing investment to be found here. Now, while the iPad...